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GASKET.

APPLICATION FILED Ames, |912.

1,153,162, Patentedsepn 7,1915.

Meuro/2 rnrnn'r orrion WNTHROP K. HOWE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 GENERAL RAILWAY SIGNAL COMPANY, 0F GTES, NEW YORK, A. COREGRATION OF'NEW YORK.

a citizen of the United States of the city of Rochester, i Monroe and State of New k, vented a new and useful Gasket, the following is a specification.

rhis invention relates to a particularly to a gasket for use in tight the joint between the cover of box.

The primary object of this invention is to construct a gasket for the purpose set forth, which will be elastic, durable, easily placed in position, and firmlyl and permanently held in position and which will be, furthermore. comparatively inexpensive. v

Other objects and advantages will appear as the description of the invention progresses, and the novel features of the invention may be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

ln describing the vinvention in detail, reference is had to the accompanying drawing, wherein I have illustrated a preferred physical embodiment of my invention, and wherein like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box; Fig. 2, is a sectional elevation of my form of gasket in place; Fig. 3, is a cross sectional view of my form of gasket in place.

l, designates the body of a box, having' the upper edges 2, the lugs 3, upon which is pivoted the cover 4 having a groove 5 therein. In the groove 5, a gasket 6 is placed, which is adapted, by reason of its position,

to bear against the top edge 2 of the box 1 1 when the cover is placed in a position to close the box. After the cover is moved to a position to close the box, the fastening device 7 co-acting with the lug 8 on the cover, is used to force the cover down firmly upon the top of the box, thus causing the gasket 6 to be pressed firmly against the top edge of the box and in the bottom of the groove 5, so that a water tight joint is formed between the cover 4 and the top edge of the box 2, sov that water may not enter the space 9.

My gasket is composed of an inner mass 10 of resilient material, such as felt, and

' this inner mass of resilient material is nl?? fitti@ mate. ...6.

c, soit ieobtained L I from being torn or worn away rapidly.

in order to prevent the gasket from becoming displaced, a wire 12 is laid on the outer surface of the felt before the braiding 11 is formed about the felt and when the gasketis placed in the groove 5, a Wire 13 is forced through the outer braiding 11, around the wire 12, and through the braiding on the other side. Both ends of the Wire are then bent parallel, one with the other, and passed through a hole 14 in the cover 4. The hole 14 is counter-sunk at its outer end and the ends of the wire 13 are' tween the outer braid 11 and the inner body of felt 10, has decided advantages and great utility, for, by such a construction the gasket may be firmly attached to the cover 4, with no liability of the wire 12 becoming displaced in the mass of the gasket as it would if the wire 12 were placed within the body of the felt 10. If the wire 12 were placed within the body of the felt 10, if considerable pressure were exerted upon it to hold the gasket Within the groove 5, the Wire 12 would be drawn throughthe body of the felt and would inally bear upon the outer braidingll and although the gasket would still be held within the groove 5, it would be loose, and it might move out of the groove so far that it would be in such a position as to be nearly severed by the closing and subsequent locking of theI box, and furthermore, after the wire 12 was drawn through the body of the fiber, the vfiber would be so destroyed that it would lose its virtue as a means for rendering the joint between the firmly and covler and the body of the box entirelyY water tig t. f f

Gaskets have heretofore been devised for the purpose for which my gasket is applicable. These gaskets have often been made of rubber, but such gaskets are objectionable as the rubber soon deteriorates, becomes hard and unyielding, and thus prevents the formation of a tight joint between the Acover and the body of the box. Gaskets have alsof been made of hemp, but in use they soon become hard and unyielding and furthermore there exhaust the possible physical embodiments What'I claim as new and to secure by Letters Patent of the Umted States, is:

1. As an article of manufacture, a gasket composed of anl inner. body of felt-like material," an outer body of braided material and a metallic member positioned between the' inner material and the outer material adapt ed for a fastening means for holding the gasket in position. V

2. As an article of manufacture, a gasket composed of aninner body of felt-like material, an'A outer body of braided material, and a metallic member of relatively small diameter positioned longitudinally therebetween. r

3.As an article of manufacture, a gasket of the idea of means underlying my invention.

composed of an inner resilient body, an

outer covering of lesseasily disintegrated material, and a metallic member of relatively small diameter positioned longitudinally therebetween. WINTHROP K. HOWE.

Witnesses: f

LILLIAN L. PHILLIPS,

ROBINO J. HAIRE. 

